Our research design encompasses (1) measuring
accounting quality attributes and (2) indentifying accounting
standard implementation dates. From an accounting
quality perspective, we measure the extent that the
accounting numbers are subject to management discretion
(Barth et al., 2008 and Luez, Nanda, & Wysocki, 2003). We
determine the effect of each accounting standard on the
accounting quality metric after controlling for known qual-